OUR FIRST HOME VISIT

 

OUR FIRST HOME VISIT

 

November 17 after one week in Kisumu we visited two

homes. George, the branch clerk and Mike, a counselor

inthe Elder's Quorum took us visiting.

The first visit was to Ruth.
She lives about 12 km from our home.

We crossed a river just off the main road.

The bridge in the picture is not the one we crossed.
The tracks you see is the road we were on coming down off the bridge.

These women here were doing their laundry in the

river and laying the clothes over the bushes and rocks to dry.

The edge of the bridge we were on had dirt sloughed away

and it appeared to not be wide eonough for the truch

to cross without dropping off the hill.

Anyway, we made it across and then we made

it across the huge rocks and deep holes!

This is a nice area of the "road" we were on.

A neighbor teen ager came to meet us on the road and

then show the way into where we

were to stop and park the truck at a neighbor's compound

then walk the rest of the way with him as a "guide".

 

This is her home.

 

This is Ruth.

She is a very sweet woman and was so happy that we

would visit her. She has been a member of the

church for many years but doesn't come to many

meeting because of the transport problems (momey).

 

She does some corcheting and she had a large amount of land.

She also has a school (two buildings) with about

180 students!! 

 This is inside her home. I dound that most people

cover their furniture with cloths and they make it

very lovely and clean looking.

 

 

This is Ruth's sister who lives with her and the child is an

orphan they have taken it.

 

 

This turkey was a great speciman of a Thanksgiving feast!!

 

These are the buildings for some of the animals.

She had chickens, rabbits, goats.

 

 

These two buildings are the school. She has young students from

the neighboring compounds to attend and some of the

teachers just volunteer to teach. Children begin school

at about age 3. Education is VERY important here!!

The school on the left is made of metal and the one on the right

is made of mud.

 

The metal school has two rooms and this is inside one

of them, Notice there are no chairs, books, or

chalk/white boards. Also the floor is dirt and not at all even!!

There was no school on Saturday but she wanted us to come back

when school children are there so we can see them in school.

 

This is the front of the mud building.

Near this side the wall is sinking into the ground because the

ground is somewhat swampy. 

 

This is looking to the inside. Here the walls have

been smoothed withmud over the blobs of mud to make the

inside of the walls.

 

This is part of Ruth's shamba (garden or farm).

It is "plowed" using a hand shovel!

That is a big area to dig!! She had a nice

dress on while we were there but she said

that after we left she would put on her work dress

and work in the shamba. 

 

We then drove 4 or 5 km to another family.

We drove a ways then we had to park the truck in a

neighbors compound then walkt he rest of the way.

We didn't take many pictures there,  but we

did see this laundry out to dry as we walked.

 

The area we walked through. 

Maize and beans in their shamba.

The shorter plants are white beans that are

shelled and dried for dried white beans. 

A home we passed on the way.

Made of mud and a thatched roof. Somewhat later

I found that these roofs last only about a year then

have to be replaced. 

Another home hiding away among the trees.

We had a very enjoyable day.

 

When we finished our visits we hurried home to change

our clothes and headed to Busia for our visit there.